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DEFINITION: n. A personality quirk or habit, which at first blush seems "cute", but which can quickly become so annoying that it undermines personal relationships. v. To be habitually irksome.
Verboticisms
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Chewumuy
Created by: Ahmad
Pronunciation: che-wu-mu-ae
Sentence: I took him for a nice guy when first i met him in university but he proved a chewumuy latter on , i just hate these fellows.
Etymology: chewing + gum. chew form chewing, um from gum. uy from guy. chewing gum tastes great at start but just gets irritating latter on.
Relationslip
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: ree/lay/shun/slip
Sentence: Playing air guitar every time he said something funny was cute at first but turned into a giant relationslip
Etymology: relationship + slip
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COMMENTS:
This is good and goofy! - wordmeister, 2007-02-15: 17:13:00
thanks wordmeister - porsche, 2007-02-16: 09:38:00
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Idiosyncrazy
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: dry-vin-mee-NUTZ
Sentence: I swear, if Sheila develops one more friggin' idiosyncrazy involving unicorns, I am OUTTA there!
Etymology: idiosyncracy (little personal quirk) + crazy (not sane)
Stoppit
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: sto-pit
Sentence: The only thing more annoying that his little stoppit -- he would continually jiggle in his chair like a little Bill Gates -- was his wife yelling "stoppit" every time she saw him do it.
Etymology: stop+it
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COMMENTS:
I like it! - ErWenn, 2007-02-16: 10:43:00
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Intimesstation
Created by: alphabetapolothology
Pronunciation:
Sentence: His intimesstation of uncontrollable gas had become a black cloud in their relationship.
Etymology: intimate + mess + irritation
Habituex
Created by: BMott
Pronunciation: Ha - bit - u - x
Sentence: Tony's crotch scratching forced Amber to make him a habituex.
Etymology: Habit - trait, often annoying u - your trait ex - previous girl/boyfriend, spouse
Procrasstination
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: Pro-crass-tin-ay-shun
Sentence: Sometimes procrastination occurs in older relationships when the initial "cute" factor wears off.
Etymology: Crass (gross) + Procrastination (Put off till later... as in later in the relationship)
Pennykilla
Created by: shrimp
Pronunciation: penni-killa
Sentence: a times of a romantic evening, the dirty looks of the girl will pennykilla my heart
Etymology: first thing I thought of when I read the description :-)
Jiltrait
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: jill-trate (rhymes with filtrate)
Sentence: Hogan wondered why his relationships never lasted; finally a friend told him about all of his bad jiltraits.
Etymology: jilt + trait
Hateabit
Created by: megmehtab
Pronunciation: heɪt ˈhæbɪt
Sentence: I am not going to bother you with my hateabit anymore.
Etymology: Taken from simple english; hate + habit = hateabit A habit you dislike now.
Comments:
wordmeister - 2007-02-15: 23:50:00
It was tricky to come up with right word for this one...
ErWenn - 2007-02-16: 10:44:00
Lots of good words for annoying habits today. It seems to be much harder to come up with a good word for an annoying habit that starts out as endearing.